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Global The 2024 Access to Medicine Index, released today, highlights some of the key milestones reached by global pharma in fostering access to their medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Novartis tops the ranking – based on a wide-ranging assessment of access governance, R&D, and product delivery – meaning that…

Global The global pharma industry is facing increased pressure to ensure lifesaving medications reach underserved populations. Drawing from a new Access to Medicine Foundation report, AMF Head of Research Claudia Martinez shares some exclusive insights on where pharma has made significant strides on the important metric of ‘patient reach’ and the…

Global The timely and equitable provision of treatment and prevention tools is just one part of the ongoing fight against HIV. Local, national, regional, and international authorities – many of which still labour under misguided preconceptions about people living with HIV – need to come together to effectively buttress the provision…

Global In 2024, people living with HIV have more, and more varied, access to HIV prevention and treatment options than ever before. Thanks to global activism efforts forcing pharma to step up, and the establishment of some vital institutional structures in the first decade of the millennium, access is up, while…

South Africa A leading voice in the global fight against HIV, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker works across both scientific research and activism. As CEO and founder of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, Prof Bekker has helped change the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Her organisation has brought the latest HIV…

Global 35 years after the specific mechanisms and structure of the human immunodeficiency virus were first identified, the world is still waiting for a vaccine against HIV. Several late-stage candidates have failed in this time, leading to most of the major pharma companies exiting HIV vaccine research. Some new early-stage approaches…

Saudi Arabia As life expectancy increases, how do we ensure that quality of life does too? That is the conundrum that Saudi Arabia’s Hevolution Foundation was set up to help solve. Hevolution invests in extending the healthy human lifespan across the world through research and treatments which target age-related diseases and conditions.…

China Former director general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and current chairman of the Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, Professor Yu Wang, weighs in on the country’s strong basic research landscape and the need to reinforce links to investment, the recent regulatory advancements that…

Global Speaking to PharmaBoardroom in the context of our upcoming InFocus special report on HIV, Access to Medicine Foundation CEO Jayasree Iyer looks back on pharma’s successes and failures in access to HIV treatment and prevention. Iyer highlights the impact of voluntary licensing of drugs via the Medicines Patent Pool and…

Global Marijn Verhoef, Director of Operations and Research at the Access to Medicine Foundation examines the interconnected challenges of drug shortages and antimicrobial resistance. Verhoef urges decisive and urgent action from the pharma companies that manufacture lifesaving antibiotics and antifungals to ensure that patients can get the right medicine when they…

Global New methodology for the 2024 Access to Medicine Index promises a stronger attempt to quantify whether drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics are actually making it all the way to patients in poorer countries around the world.   Industry stakeholders eagerly await the biennial publication of the Access to Medicine Index, a…

USA While the COVID-19 pandemic was a global wake-up call for many, life sciences stakeholders argue that not enough is being done to address the rising threats of further health crises and equate health security with national security, a necessity that requires consistent public funding. In addition, as a recent panel…